Legal Sports Report<\/em> that he had \u201cnever seen\u201d such intense lobbying on any bill, adding that the governor was personally calling Democratic representatives one by one to ask them not to override.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, the state\u2019s two casinos were stepping up the pressure, urging their employees to contact lawmakers and tell them to side with the governor.<\/p>\n
The casinos are against the bill because it would open the market to out-of-state mobile operators like FanDuel and DraftKings, who — uniquely, so far in the US — would not be required to partner with an existing land-based gaming licensee.<\/p>\n
These last-ditch efforts appear to have worked. And so perishes the most progressive, free-market sports betting bill America has yet seen. Expect something less radical next year, which will probably involve tethering mobile operators to land-based casinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Maine House of Representatives did not override Democratic Governor Janet Mills’ veto of the state\u2019s sports betting bill Tuesday, despite having been widely tipped to do so. The House voted 85-57 in favor of the bill, but fell short by around ten votes of the necessary two-thirds super majority. Sports betting will have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":126586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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